Paolo Granata

Attività

Liaisons

Partecipazione a convegni nazionali e internazionali

28-30 June 2015 – Keynote An Intellectual Revolution: Behind and Beyond the Toronto School of Communication, “Made in Canada. The Languages of Media”, International Conference, Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi, University of Naples “L’Orientale”.

September 21-22, 2012 – Paper A Return to Magic: the (Go)Spell of Technology in Marshall McLuhan’s Thought, International Conference “McLuhan: Social Media between Faith and Culture” University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto.

June 7-10, 2012 – Paper “Words in Freedom”: Futurism, Marinetti and the rise of the wireless imagination, The Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association “The Crossroads of the World”, Manhattan College, New York.

May 29-30-31, 2012 – Paper “From Cliché to Archetype”: McLuhan discovers Zolla, Zolla International Conference, promoted by A.I.R.E.Z. and The Berendel Foundation, London, under the aegis of the UNESCO National Commission, Montepulciano (Italy).

April 20-21, 2012 – Paper Performances of Presence: living an Extended Present, “The new sensorium: embodied perception, extensions of humanity and digital communication”, Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University, Athens.

November 7-10, 2011 – Paper The Aesthetics of Marshall McLuhan: the Medium as Expressive Form, at “Then Now Next” McLuhan Centenary International Conference, University of Toronto.

October 26-28, 2011 – Paper Probing the Aesthetics of Marshall McLuhan, “McLuhan’s Philosophy of Media” International Conference, Free University of Brussels (Belgium).

August 22-26, 2011 – Paper Toward the Tactile Vision: Probing the Phenomenology of Video-Ludic Environment, and panel curator at 9th International Conference on Word and Image Studies, Aierti-Iawis, Montreal.

March 24-26, 2011, panel curator and moderator at International Symposium “Communications Makes the Nations”, promoted by University of Bologna with the support of the Government of Canada.

March 30, 2012 – Roundtable “At the mercy of the (radio) waves: Old and new media celebrating Titanic’s Centenary”, Future Film Festival, Bologna.

July 14, 2011 – Roundtable “Video is the message. Oltre il villaggio globale: da McLuhan a Youtube”, with Guido Bartorelli and Silvia Grandi, in collaboration with BoArt, The Village, Bologna.

June 18, 2011 – Co-moderator “What a Video-Character He Was!”, meeting with the Canadian film-director David Sobelman, with Elena Lamberti and Peppino Ortoleva, Salons McLuhan #3, in collaboration with Biografilm Festival Festival, Bologna.